PUNCHING KITTY

Maida Coleman has submitted her signatures and if they are verified, she will be in the St. Louis Mayoral race as an independent candidate despite her long affiliation with the Democratic Party?  She says its because there is already a Coleman on the ballot in March, but you know she just had a big Christmas card list and a loop-hole in the system. 

Today, Coleman submitted about 1,000 names, well beyond the 526 required to gain ballot access. 

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I can remember begging my parents to let me stay up to watch the Zippo Awards.  Feel free to relive the glory from one magical night in February 28th, 1997: 

You’re welcome.

No, its not actually from this site, but it does share the same name and basic theme, albeit a more liberal take.  Check it:

Now go to Threadless.com and vote for it so it gets made in to a shirt and sold on their site!

Seriously go right now.

Why haven’t you gone yet?

(Super Monkey Fun Time Bonus Game: Try to guess what rating I gave it!)

Over the past eight months, the Post-Dispatch has revealed controversial ties between the police department and St. Louis Metropolitan Towing: perks given to the police chief’s daughter, questionable tactics used to gouge vehicle owners and hundreds of thousands of dollars the company kept from taxpayers.

But the relationship proved most lucrative during one day each year: Mardi Gras’ major parade day.

That was from the article in the Post Dispatch about the apparently many-layered scheme that originated from recently ousted Police Chief Joe “I keep looking dirtier every day” Mokwa.

As I mentioned earlier in my note, there have been changes to the site as of this morning.

I have been “ordered” to take down a few posts (Posts that I can’t name of course, but I think you could probably figure it out.) and remove all of the up-right journalistic full-disclosure notices.

Obviously, I was pissed.

The amazing growth of PunchingKitty.com has, in so many words, shocked the hell out of me.  This site just launched less than a month a go and it already has a mature site’s worth of traffic and made a clear dent in the St. Louis media scene, so its not much of a leap to say St. Louis clearly wanted / needed a site like this.  Despite all of that, at first blush, I was just going to yank the site and put up a message.  Why?  Because if you have limits on what areas of St. Louis you post on or take shots at, then you are an asshole, but if you are universal in your scope and always hit every target, then everyone is fairly treated and you aren’t an asshole. [Editor’s Note: Well, at least not for that reason. :) ] After thinking about it for a little while longer, and resisting the urge to toss my computer through a window, I decided it would be more fitting of what Punching Kitty has stood for thus far to continue on and simply “note” the one thing I can’t touch on in an open, although admittedly vague out of necessity, letter and then go about my business the best I can.

I just wanted to put up a quick note so that no one has a chance to think anything different.  A few things on the site have been “updated” or removed as a result of some recent events.

I’ve always been 100% open on this site, and I will always try to stay as close to 100% as possible, and in that vein I will have a post up later discussing these changes as in depth as I can.

Is it just us that seems like way too many accidents happen where someone drives in to the side of someone’s freaking house?

Its one thing to take out a mailbox or whatever, but it seems like at least once or twice a year some retard drives in to someone’s freaking house…right in the the freaking side of it…like what happened yesterday as reported (kinda, I mean there was nothing really about it on the page at the time of this writing) by KSDK.

We hear that despite the extension recently passed into law that now makes the Digital TV transition cut off June 12th, KDNL will make the “switch” and cut off their analog TV signal today, the original DTV cut-off date.

We’ve looked around and it seems all other St. Louis TV broadcasters will continue to push on with the analog signal until the new June 12th date.

Sent in by one of our faithful and sexy readers via our tip-line (tips[at]punchingkitty[dot]com), a south county resident is selling his 1.25 horsepower with five incline positions “treadmill.”  See the ad here.

For the first time, one of our Craigslist posts deserved a screenshot:

If you decide to purchase this lovely piece of machinery for $25 bucks, a little tip: When I bake, I like to keep my oven treadmill on incline level 2.

The RFT’s STLog has the list of fineable situations put out by Mardi Gras Inc.  Some of the highlights: 

• Music too loud or in disabonmernt……….$250
• Unapproved throws………………………….$100
• Lewd behavior / Nudity……………………..$250

So no boobies at Mardi Gras.  Sounds like fun. Of course the interesting thing is that this is not a list from the STL PD, this is from Mardi Gras Inc.  so I’m interested to see how this goes down when a fine needs to be dealt.